Need help with some ethical or legal stuff

Patients have a bill of rights. Patients also consent to care and have a right to self-determine their care. Those who care for patients are to keep information protected. ;

;Select one of the patient rights (ethical or legal issues and a different one chosen by another student) from readings this week. Discuss with your colleagues the right, the legal and/or ethical basis for this right and how this translates into responsibility for a specific health service organization setting. Provide two specific real life case examples that you find on the internet or in the print media. ;Examples: ; assisted living facilities for disabled, long term care facility, a home care nursing association, a small physician practice, a hospital, a rehabilitation center, or a first responder/ambulance. ;

Discuss ;

1. The patient right (with proper legal citation);

2. The setting; and

3. The health care organization’s responsibility.

Reference Background Readings this week:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/files/documents/healthcare-fact-sheets/patients-bill-rights.pdf ; [The White House]

• http://www.nrc-pad.org/images/stories/PDFs/fedaddirectives2a.pdf ; [ Federal Law on Advance Directives] ;
  • http://www.aha.org/content/00-01/pcp_english_030730.pdf ; [Website may say no there but just click on the heading above notice. Many articles on patience rights]
  • http://www.healthsourceglobal.com/docs/patient%20bill%20of%20rights_merged.pdf [patient’s rights, protections and the law]
  • http://partnershipforpatients.cms.gov/ ; [gov website partnership for patients]
  • http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1209500 ;[shared decision making]